Contests started: None!
Contests won: CHARTREUSE (10), DISINFECT (9), TWITTER (7), FEASTED (7)
Clue ID | Contest | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
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4579 | PRISTINE (8) | Flawless pull request is finally sent in by engineering lead (8) | PR + IS + sen[T] + IN + [E]ngineering | navi | 4 |
4623 | AUGUST (6) | Release month of JoJo's Bizarre Adventures: Golden Wind (6) | AU=golden GUST=wind | Vol 1 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventures was released in August, 1987 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Blood) | navi | 4 |
4665 | CHARTREUSE (10) | Green diagrams detailed second part of a recycling slogan (10) | diagrams detailed = CHARTS - S second part of a recycling program = REUSE (from "reduce, reuse, recycle") |
navi | 4 |
4767 | TWITTER (7) | Write letters once or thrice for social media (7) | "letters once or thrice" indicates letter bank on WRITE => TWITTER | navi | 4 |
4882 | FEASTED (7) | "Ate nothing!" "Ate almost nothing!" "Ate a lot..." (7) | FASTED (ate nothing) "ate" E (epsilon, almost nothing) = FEASTED (ate a lot) | navi | 4 |
4680 | DISINFECT (9) | Purify relentless disease in middle of prefecture (9) | purify = DIS[ease] ("relent"-less) + IN + [pre]FECT[ure] | navi | 3 |
4903 | REPLY (5) | return "yes"; // end of interactive language shell (5) | Y at end of REPL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop) | navi | 3 |
4639 | CANDLE (6) | It sets the mood for a date as two loves, getting carried away, kiss and cuddle (6) | def = "It sets the mood for a date" CANOODLE = "kiss and cuddle" - OO = "two loves getting carried away" |
navi | 2 |
4915 | BIDEN (5) | Staff of hellish plutocrat finally lost to him (5) | semi-&lit (hellish) Pluto refers to the Roman god as opposed to the planet. Staff of hellish Pluto = BIDENT - ([cra]T) |
navi | 2 |
5097 | HEAD (4) | It's somewhat ache-adjacent! (4) | _HE-AD_ &lit. adjacent to ACHE in the word HEADACHE | navi | 2 |
4695 | BUNKUM (6) | North Korea and leader of USA admitted to good-for-nothing claptrap (6) | CLAPTRAP (def) = NK+U[SA] in BUM (good-for-nothing, n.) | navi | 1 |
4920 | INTEGRAL (8) | Function for numbers (perhaps large) may be improper? (8) | &lit punning on "improper integrals" INT|LARGE* function for numbers (perhaps) = INT (function in Python) + EGRAL = LARGE* may be improper as anagrind |
navi | 1 |
4611 | ANY ANSWER RELATED TO SPEEDRUNNING (?) | Score a penny after each race to win a lady's love? (3 4 7) | Score = GET LAID, CENT (a penny) after PER (each) GET LAID PERCENT = race to win a lady's love (BotW category) ;) |
navi | 0 |
4744 | SHOWMAN (7) | Ringmaster's abominable creature devours top hooper in place of fleeing knight (7) | ringmaster (def) = abominable SNOWMAN-N+H | navi | 0 |